We spent the last couple of days running from one section of town to another. This was a manhole cover not too far from the Animate main store. I guess Ikebukuro has it’s own mascots now.

I forgot to mention that I met the person behind the Yuri Times at Comitia! Ayumi is super lovely, and I applaud all her amazing work.  They just did an interview with I Don’t Know Which Is Love creator Tamamushi Oku in English, check it out.

We met up with BL idol researcher Thomas Baudinette for a lovely lunch, during which we talked about doing fieldwork when buying crap we want anyway, fandom’s problems with possessiveness and morality policing, about how the same “concerns” roll around with new names every generation, and real-person shipping.

While in Harajuku the other night, I saw something delightful! Back when I started looking for JP queer resources, there was (still is) a blog called Love Piece Club. They were a lesbian-run, sex-positive group that did workshops on female sexuality and gender. Their website sold sex toys when that kind of thing was just not done. In the same building that houses the Sailor Moon Store….look what I found!

A real-world Love Piece Club store.  It is amazing to me how things have changed.

We hit up Akihabara last night. Shosen Book Tower’s Yuri section is still on point. Comic Zin had a lot of Yuri doujinshi and we headed over to Gee! store, in hopes that they had a leftover Ralaire tee from the I’m In Love With The Villainess pop-up. They were out, but I found a fun G-Witch t-shirt instead.

It was a long day, but today is lecture day, so I will be braining all day and will therefore be quite stupid. ^_^ See you soon.